Ronald Reagan: "E.T. is 'absolutely true'"

[RocketMan]

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This just struck me as a very RI tidbit in a Steven Spielberg interview:

[Reagan] just stood up and he looked around the room, almost like he was doing a headcount, and he said, “I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie,” and then he looked around the room and said, “And there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.”

And he said it without smiling! But he said that and everybody laughed, by the way. The whole room laughed because he presented it like a joke, but he wasn’t smiling as he said it.

That Reagan guy smacks of high weirdness... he and his astrology obsessed wife.

[gnosticheresy_2]

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This just struck me as a very RI tidbit in a Steven Spielberg interview:

[Reagan] just stood up and he looked around the room, almost like he was doing a headcount, and he said, “I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie,” and then he looked around the room and said, “And there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.”

And he said it without smiling! But he said that and everybody laughed, by the way. The whole room laughed because he presented it like a joke, but he wasn’t smiling as he said it.

That Reagan guy smacks of high weirdness... he and his astrology obsessed wife.

Wasn't there a story that Reagan had seen a UFO while on a flight to California earlier in his career and was spouting off about it then abruptly shut up? I'm sure it's popped up on here before (hasn't everything? ) but god knows which thread it's on...

[MacCruiskeen]

Did Ronald Reagan really exist?

[Joe Hillshoist]

I'm afraid he did Mac.

he was a POS too.

[DrVolin]

Anyone who can play straight man to a chimp can deliver that line dead as a pan.

[Canadian_watcher]

Ronald Reagan once felt me up while I was dressed as a showgirl in a sequined hat. I had been working for a specialty agency that made birthday appearances for high profile clientele. On the night in question I had been sent to the Reagan's to hand deliver an enormous (and ugly) bouquet of blue roses to his wife. This was back in 1957, before he was president of course but also long before I was born.

I am not smiling as I type this.

[Luther Blissett]

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This just struck me as a very RI tidbit in a Steven Spielberg interview:

[Reagan] just stood up and he looked around the room, almost like he was doing a headcount, and he said, “I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie,” and then he looked around the room and said, “And there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.”

And he said it without smiling! But he said that and everybody laughed, by the way. The whole room laughed because he presented it like a joke, but he wasn’t smiling as he said it.

That Reagan guy smacks of high weirdness... he and his astrology obsessed wife.

Wasn't there a story that Reagan had seen a UFO while on a flight to California earlier in his career and was spouting off about it then abruptly shut up? I'm sure it's popped up on here before (hasn't everything? ) but god knows which thread it's on...

Were you thinking of this one? viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14253&p=142009&hilit=Reagan+UFO+sighting#p142009

Good memory friend.

Canadian watcher, that's really brutal.

[Kate]

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Here's how I dealt with the Reagan years, which is to say my guideline for decoding him:

Q: When is Ronald Reagan lying?
A: Whenever his lips are moving.

If he had said the sun was going to set in the west, I would've taken my trusty compass outside right before eventide just to make sure.

This is why I knew for certain it was very bad news when he said, "It's MORNING in America." That was when I knew he was about to dismantle every decent actual achievement of fairness and justice.

On the other hand, I don't have any particular reason to trust anything Steven Spielberg says, either.

p.s. Canadian watcher, that was hilarious!

[Occult Means Hidden]

The whole nuts-and-bolts UFO craft with Flesh-and-blood aliens is about as mainstream as the New York Yankees. Especially the more removed we become from that past.

I'd be shocked if Reagan declared that the above "nuts-n-bolts" idea was encouraged and thrust upon the population to hide government ultra-advanced elite technology or the idea that the "aliens" are really interdimensional entities that conspired long ago to plant humans on Earth for a once-a-50,000 year harvest of souls as allegorically explained in "the Matrix". A harvest the fundamentalist like to call, "rapture".

[8bitagent]

Hasn't it been shown that after he was shot, he pretty much became a pushover pawn of Poppy Magog Bush and others?

I do find it interesting that various presidents claim to have seen UFOs or believe in them(Carter for instance) As 50's zine pulp/90's mega movie mainstream the UFO trope has become, I still find it noteworthy when heads of state personally believe in them.

On a related note, a new Whitley Strieber book based film doth cometh
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/49968

[Nordic]

i wouldn't say "doth cometh" when it's just a project in development.

it might and it might not.